In rural America, perhaps more than other areas, high school students have the ability to contribute to the revitalization and sustainability of their home communities by engaging in oral history proj
In the 1940s and 1950s, Albert Schweitzer was one of the best-known figures on the world stage. Courted by monarchs, world statesmen, and distinguished figures from the literary, musical, and scientif
Becoming Turkish deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post—Ottoman Turkey through a rare perspective that stresses social and cultural dimensions and everyday negoti
Editors Nwosu and Obiwu present students, academics, researchers, and general interest readers with a collection of academic papers and scholarly articles focused on the driving forces behind the lite
Pelaschiar presents a collection of academic papers and scholarly articles focused on Shakespeare’s presence in the work of Irish novelist James Joyce. She has organized the contributions that make up
This study explains how and why spiritual leader and Shi‘ite jurist Muhammad Kazim Khurasani led a faction of Iranian clerics to enable modernists and reformers in the Iranian Constitutional Revolutio
Ryan and Shamir note that the 1880 novel, Ben-Hur, written by Civil War veteran, Lew Wallace (1827-1905), garnered phenomenal, unprecedented popularity mostly as the result of grassroots activity rath
"'If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide,' wrote the late Mahatma Gandhi, expressing the potent power of humor to sustain and uplift. Less obvious is humor's ability to o
Anthropologists consider the single undisturbed site that remains to demonstrate the life of the Cayuga people in upstate New York before the 1779 Sullivan Campaign in which the new US government dest
The 16 essays in this volume examine animals in the Pacific Ocean, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, viewing them as the subjects of history in non-anthropocentric ways. Historians from the US, Canada
Rather than idealizing the Hebrew-Yiddish bilingualism that once defined Eastern European Jewish culture or recounting the language war that challenged it, Brenner argues that the continued Hebrew-Yid
A young woman living at her father's castle is the narrator of this novella. When a mysterious and beautiful stranger is stranded at the castle in odd circumstances and becomes a guest, the heroine q
In Watching TV with a Linguist, Fägersten challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, she champions the use of fictional television
In Watching TV with a Linguist, Fägersten challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, she champions the use of fictional television
It has been said that the difference between and language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both the act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension bet
